Knicks Set to Resume as Wallace and Camby Work Their Way Back

The guards and small forwards worked on 3-pointers from the corner at Tuesday’s practice. Tyson Chandler, fresh off his first All-Star Game, practiced low-post moves. Amar’e Stoudemire and Kurt Thomas took midrange jumpers. Rasheed Wallace ran to test his recovering left foot. Marcus Camby did conditioning drills.

In the middle of all the dribbling, shooting and running was Coach Mike Woodson, watching his players work to make the second leg of their season as successful as their first 50 games.

It was the first time this season Woodson had all of his players participate in practice. As Wallace and Camby get closer to returning to the lineup, the Knicks are closer to becoming a fully healthy team. They have a grueling 32 games remaining on the schedule, beginning with a game at Indiana on Wednesday.

Woodson said the Knicks had a productive practice.

“We had a nice film session, and then it translated to the court,” Woodson said. “It’s good to have everyone back.”

Wallace sustained a stress fracture in a win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Dec. 13. He has not played since. In Tuesday’s practice, he did noncontact drills and appeared to have strong lateral movement.

The rest of the Knicks were pleased to come back from the break and see Wallace and Camby sweating from their workouts.

“To have everybody healthy and ready to go is a good sign,” Jason Kidd said. “We just have to play our part, and if we can do that and if luck is on our side, hopefully we can win.”

Kidd reflected on what has made the Knicks second in the Eastern Conference standings after 50 games. He said one of the biggest factors was their impressive ball movement in November and December. He acknowledged that the team passed the ball less in the last month and a half because Carmelo Anthony was such a superior scorer.

“We have to share the ball and help each other out,” Kidd said of the Knicks’ biggest priority. He added: “We were doing that in the first 20 games. I think we got away from that at the end, but when you have a guy like Carmelo, you tend to give him the ball and watch. We can’t rely on him to carry us the whole way.”

Woodson agreed with Kidd. “I think Carmelo knows that, too,” Woodson said. “Carmelo is here to do one thing, and that’s help us win basketball games.”

Woodson said the Knicks were not likely to make a trade before Thursday afternoon’s deadline. “We have an older team, and there’s not a lot of teams around that are going to take older veterans,” Woodson said in an interview on ESPN radio. “It doesn’t work that way. This is the team that we’ve assembled, and I like the makeup of our ball club. I really do.”

Woodson said he would not change his starting lineup against the Pacers though he considered doing that last week. “I’m not going to panic and make any unnecessary chances that I don’t think we need right at this point,” he said.

The Knicks entered the break losing three of their last four games.

“I think we might have been thinking about the break beforehand,” Stoudemire said. “I think that might have keyed in on us.”

Now, the Knicks no longer want to look back. They are getting healthy. They want to start the second leg of their season by beating the Pacers.

“We’ve had a chance to refocus,” Stoudemire said. “Hopefully, we can get it going tomorrow.”

A version of this article appears in print on February 20, 2013, on page B12 of the New York edition with the headline: Knicks Set to Resume As Wallace and Camby Work Their Way Back. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe